Chapter 40 The atmosphere in the room shifted a little but Naomi couldn't tell if it was tension or something else until she realised no one was meeting her eye "Wait. What are you not telling me? How is Rhys?" "Um in the main Rhys is good." Said Theon "He met his mate last year but he won't marry her. He's refusing to until you can be at his wedding." Naomi was happy for him and a little touched at this irrational behaviour about his wedding. I bet his mate already dislikes me she thought but she realised there was still something she wasn't being told. "He's got the sickness." Said Theon "I got word two days ago that he collapsed and was taken to the pack hospital for treatment. With me gone he has been over doing it to replace me and apparently over worked himself until he passed out in a meeting with the elders," Naomi went white and felt a cold dread wash through her veins. "Take me to him" she ordered Theon "Now" Theon looked surprised but stood up and helped up Naomi. "We will look after Alex, we have a room just come get him in the morning," said Margot. Thanking the Luna Naoi rushed out the house in the direction of Theon's car. As they started driving to the pack hospital Theon could see how nervous Naomi looked and put a hand on her knee to try and reassure her. Naomi made an angry huffing noise. "Are you mad at me for not telling you?" he asked "What?" asked Naomi surprised by the question "No! I'm mad at him...I came back here with this whole speech ready in my mind of how exactly I was going to tell him off and make him grovel and get a little revenge maybe before he gets a single hug out of me and then he is sick and it's all gone out the window and I just want to see him and for him to be okay" Theon nodded. He wasn't entirely sure he understood her reasoning but after Rhys and Naomis parents died they were each other's whole world, and they had a bond no one else could ever understand. When Theon knew that Naomi was his mate, he used to worry that he would never be able to get as close to her or be as special as her brother was in her eyes. But looking at the worry etched across her delicate face right now he hoped he never caused her this kind of distress. Arriving at the hospital they went straight to the 4th floor where there was a ward for those with the sickness. As a Beta Rhys had the privilege of a private room. Naomi flung the door open and lying in the bed looking drawn and weak was her big brother. But when he saw Naomi stood in the doorway his eyes sparked to life and the look of exhaustion on is face was replaced by happiness. "Nai!" he exclaimed but before he could say anything else his sister had come at him like a whirlwind, throwing her arms around his neck and squeezing him tight, "Nai! Let go" he managed to say though the hair the had engulfed him. "I cant breath" Releasing her hold on her brother a little Naomi sat on the side of the bed next to him and gave him an appraising look. Then she reached out and punched his arm. "Ow what was that for?" he asked "for everything" she replied smiling at him "and then topping it off with having the neve to make me worry about you. You look fine to me. Are you faking for my attention?" she asked giving him some fake side eye. Then to Theon and Naomi's surprised Rhys burst into tears. "Naomi Clark. I have missed you so much" he said as he pulled her back to him and swallowed her in another hug.